A taste of Asia: Customers queuing at Urban Hawker in Midtown Manhattan. (Inset) Seetoh was inspired to open the food hall after a meeting with Bourdain. — Reuters
A SINGAPORE-STYLE hawker centre has opened in New York for the first time, bringing flavors from the South-East Asian island’s mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultures to an American food court.
Urban Hawker, in midtown Manhattan, features 17 vendors handpicked by the food hall’s curator, KF Seetoh, with 11 coming directly from hawker centres in Singapore.
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